Photojournalist Eddie Adams Dies at 71




“South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam on Feb. 1, 1968. The photo, by photojournalist Eddie Adams, became one of the Vietnam’s War’s most indelible images, winning a Pultizer Prize in 1969. Adams died at his Manhattan, New York home from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease (newsweb sites), Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 said his assistant, Jessica Stuart. He was 71.”

(AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)

Photojournalist Eddie Adams Dies at 71

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